Support UC Davis on Giving Tuesday
Help protect the health of animals, humans, and the planet
Celebrated this year on November 28, Giving Tuesday is the global movement that reimagines a world built upon shared humanity and radical generosity. We hope you'll consider donating to our people and programs—your contribution goes toward supporting the animals and ecosystems that we cherish and rely on for our shared health.
California Raptor Center
The California Raptor Center, a part of the school’s Wildlife Health Center, has been rescuing and rehabilitating birds of prey for more than 50 years. The center also conducts education, training and science, including recently opening a new vulture exhibit made possible by donors. Consider joining the other volunteers and donors who support the center every day.
Donate to the California Raptor Center
SeaDoc Society
Did you know that UC Davis has an organization working to heal the sea? The SeaDoc Society, headquartered in Washington State, works to ensure the health of marine wildlife and their ecosystems through science and education. The work they do in the Salish Sea—or the shared waters of the U.S. and Canada that stretch from Olympia into British Columbia—has implications for the health of all our oceans.
For Giving Tuesday, your impact is doubled, thanks to anonymous donors who will match every donation up to $50,000!
Dean’s Priority Fund
The Dean’s Priority Funds is the cornerstone of our mission and impacts nearly all areas of the school. These unrestricted funds allow the Dean to remain steadfast in our commitment to world-class research and teaching, while fostering creativity and the pursuit of new ideas. A portion of your gift to the Dean’s Priority Support Fund will go towards our Dean's Priority Endowment in order to provide support in perpetuity to the Dean’s initiatives.
Donate to the Dean's Priority Fund
Gorilla Doctors Program
Gorilla Doctors is dedicated to conserving wild mountain and eastern lowland (or Grauer's) gorillas through life-saving veterinary medicine and a One Health approach. Gorilla Doctors’ international team of veterinarians is the only group providing these critically endangered animals with direct, hands-on care in the wild. Gorilla Doctors operates in the three countries where mountain and Grauer’s gorillas live: Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The program is the realization of a dream of legendary American gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, who dedicated her life to studying and protecting mountain gorillas in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park. The donor-funded program is a partnership between the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center and the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project.
Donate to the Gorilla Doctors program
Compassionate Care Fund
The School of Veterinary Medicine has many charitable funds established by generous benefactors to help animals in need of care. “Compassionate Care Funds”, formerly known as "Angel Funds", were first established at the UC Davis veterinary hospital in 1990. These funds help defray costs for families to treat their sick or injured animals, and also to assist with the costs of treating shelter, stray and wild animals brought to the veterinary hospital. These funds not only help the patients and their families, but also allow for the cases necessary for our faculty to teach the next generation of veterinarians. You can help continue this tradition by considering a tax-deductible donation to the “Compassionate Care Funds.”
Donate to the Compassionate Care Fund
Latin America Program
The Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center’s Latin America Program focuses on a variety of issues in South America, including the effects lead ammunition on waterfowl, mortality in southern right whales and health issues that threaten penguins, guanaco and albatross. The Program is led by Dr. Marcela Uhart. Also in Latin America, the UC Davis Students for One Health have established an evidence-based, interdisciplinary community health project and research platform in Nicaragua, where students travel annually and the Oiled Wildlife Care Network has formed a partnership in Ensenada, Mexico, where they are training and educating a team for oil spill response and wildlife rehabilitation.
Donate to the Latin America Program
Center for Equine Health Teaching Herd Fund
The Center for Equine Health Teaching Herd Fund supports daily and specialized care for our teaching herd horses. These horses provide valuable hands-on learning opportunities to undergraduates, veterinary students, residents and graduate students.
Donate to the Center for Equine Health Teaching Herd Fund
DVM Scholarship Fund
Support for our veterinary students is one of our highest priorities. We value your generosity and investment in our students.
Donate to the DVM Scholarship Fund
Koret Shelter Medicine Program Student Training Fund
Shelters and the communities they serve are in desperate need of access to spay and neuter surgeries they can afford. Our shelters are full and operating at or outside capacity and we’re losing hard-won ground through our TNR programs.
We can lead: The UC Davis Student Training Program is poised to scale to meet the needs of our greater community by pivoting to a community-based service model and offering deeply discounted spay/neuter surgery to multiple animal welfare organizations, including Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) focused organizations, and their communities. Gove today to help our veterinary students spay it forward this holiday season!
Donate to the Koret Shelter Medicine Program Student Training Fund
Southern California Mountain Lion Research
The California Mountain Lion Project has worked with mountain lions in Southern California since 2001, with particular focus on habitat use, prey animals, health and disease, and human interaction. By placing GPS collars on the mountain lions, the project is able to track movements and behavior, as well as document habitat use. This information is gathered to identify potential conflict points in shared habitats to help prevent tragedies for humans, pets and wildlife — this information is then shared to help educate the public on the importance of mountain lions to the ecosystem and what can be done to prevent their decline in the state
Donate to Southern California Mountain Lion Research
Niels C. Pedersen Feline Health Endowment
The Niels C. Pedersen Feline Health Endowment provides support to research studies focused on improving the health and well-being of cats at the Center for Companion Animal Health (CCAH). This fund will serve as a tribute to Dr. Niels Pedersen's lifelong commitment to feline health research.
Donate to the Feline Health Endowment
Canine Health Research
The Canine Health Fund provides support to research studies focused on improving the health and well-being of dogs at the Center for Companion Animal Health (CCAH).
Donate to Canine Health Research
Other Programs
Do you have a favorite area of the school that you want to support that isn’t listed above? We welcome your gift to any of our programs, as we are working every day to improve the health of animals, people, and the environment. Thank you for taking a moment on this Giving Tuesday to support the School of Veterinary Medicine.